Application Form

Application Process

On receipt of your application form we will contact you to take your payment. We will then arrange an appointment for you to come in to:

have your photo taken for your ID card

sign the declaration

receive your permit

All applications must be made at least 48 hours in advance of the required start date. Any applications made later than this may not be processed and you will not be permitted to begin trading on your required day.

Consultation

There is no consultation process.

Evaluation

There is no statutory period for determining applications; however, we aim to determine applications within 30 days.

Tacit Consent

Tacit consent applies. This means that you will be able to act as though your application is granted if you have not heard from the local authority by the end of the 30 day target completion period.

Conditions

i) A mobile street artist is defined as a person who only sketches/paints and only sells his/her own art work.

ii) A mobile street artist has no fixed location but with local authority consent moves from location to location and shall not occupy one location for more than 3 hours and shall not return to that location or within 50 metres of it the same day.

iii) The artist shall not obstruct the highway nor shall his/her artistic work lead to the highway being obstructed by people gathering to watch the artist at work.

iv) The artist shall not make use of the street furniture e.g. public seats, lamp posts, railings, walls, pavements etc.

v) No mobile street artist shall occupy a place within 50 metres of any other mobile street artist or within 50 metres of any other authorised street trading pitch which deals in art or craft work.

vi) The area occupied by the artist shall not exceed 1.5 m x 1.5 m.

vii) Each consent shall be issued to a single person and is not transferable to another under any circumstances.

viii) The permitted trading days and hours will be stipulated on the consent. Consents will only be issued for trading between the hours of 09:00 and 18:00.

ix) The Artist shall immediately stop his/her activities in that place when requested to do so by a Police Constable or a Council Officer.